Yes, not her finest hour and she in hindsight may have regretted not supporting freedom of speech with more vigour.

That is a total distortion of what she said. Her comments were not even directed at Rushdie. She commented that she thought the timing of giving Rushdie a literary award was unfortunate. Agree with that or disagree with it but don't distort the truth.

@@mikelheron20 Shirley Williams.... "I think it was a mistake. I think thatit was a (as it's said to be) a reward for lifelong literary endeavour then all i can say is that the timing was very odd indeed. I want to say very clearly that I don't believe the Prime Minister had anything whatsoever to do with it, I think it came up from a departmental proposal which is what usually happens with knighthoods and I think a lot of the political firestorm has been started quite incorrectly. Nevertheless I think the Department for Culture and the media which I think put his name forward were not very wise to do it in that way. This is a man who has deeply offended Muslims in a very powerful way and who has been protected by the British police against threats of suicide for years and years at great expense to the tax payer and frankly I think that it was not wise and not very clever to give him a knighthood" Christopher Hitchens.... "I think that's a contemptible statement and I think everyone who applauded it should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves"

And achieved nothing.

Also known as a season ticket on the gravy train.

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because millions have the Jab it's possibly saving yr life EEJIT

@@dixiedoos3512 It's killing more people at a faster rate than covid19 pillok

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A heck of a lot better than the current lot in charge.

Can't argue with that. It was when the Monster Raving Loony Party got more votes than the SDP in a by-election that David Owen decided to shut it down, but by then they had allowed Thatcher to win two more elections, so the only ones laughing were the Tories.

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They were pre cold War now they're just anti British

Don't worry, Blair took care of that. We have to remember, though, that the BBC's new generation of commentators have no real knowledge of political history before the turn of the century. They will have read up on it to get their degrees, but they lack the instinctive grasp of party politics that John Cole, Alastair Burnet and their contemporaries learned by rising through the ranks of journalism that would never have let them make ignorant remarks about drifting to the left.

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Legacy of Bull5hit like all politicians

Where?

Not really, the modern SDP are just a bunch of loony Brexiteers and UKIP rejects.

@@caswallon1415 rod liddle, John cleese and Patrick o flynn.

Took her a long time to be born. Another "Lifelong Socialist" who could not wait to be a House Of Lords Member-though as she left the UK to "Work" in the USA she was seldom here to cast her malignant poison into UK Society

That was a very long birth. Her poor mother.

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@Gary Fletcher When she put her ambitions above keeping Labour united. Cared for her own interests.

But those "Women" did not include Dame Shirley Williams,I reckon!

@Dwayne Rockersfield Of course she did. That's why she left the Labour party.

This came as a surprise to Margaret Thatcher, as she had never considered herself to be working class.